Shuttle tells me they are waiting on NVIDIA. No surprise there. The nForce2, like the NV30, seems perrenially delayed. I think Shuttle will have the product shipping as soon as they can get the chipsets to make it.

I'm not sure about all nforce2 boards but for what it's worth, newegg is expecting to be selling the A7N8X by the 18th of the month.. not a big fan of ASUS, but I'm glad to see SOMTHING is coming out of the nvidia.

It may be necessary to buy a micro-ATX / ITX form factor nForce2 motherboard from another supplier and attempt to install it in a Casetronic Checker Cube since it looks just like a Shuttle XPC only slightly bigger with 2 x 5.25" bays.

Now that pictures of the new GeForceFX card are available the immediate question is will it fit in a Shuttle SFF given that the card effectively requires a PCI slot to the left of the AGP slot for its cooler unit ...

I would *LOVE* to get a cube. But I need AGP, and currently p4's are just too much for my meager budget, saving a 100 or so on the CPU would make the platform viable for me.

I would tend to think the Pentium cube would be the cheaper of the two. The processors are pretty cheap these days and very overclockable (400-800MHz, while you'll be lucky to get half that out of an AMD in a tiny cube). I'm guessing the Nforce2 cube will be a good $80-100 more than the SS51G for some time after launch, too.